Asia in Pictures

Dec. 6, 2012 11:10 p.m. ET

A man bathed his child in Ayodhya, India, Thursday. Hindu scriptures say Ayodhya is the birthplace of Lord Ram, making it one of the religion's holiest places.
Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press…

A grave stood in the middle of the construction site of a building in Taiyuan, in China's Shanxi province, Thursday. The family of the deceased is waiting for an auspicious date to move the grave and a reason from the developer why it chose this site, according to the owner of grave.
Reuters…

A fishermen pulled in his net as foam mixed with surf at a beach in Chennai, India, on Thursday. Officials blamed the high levels of sewage and industrial waste as the cause of the foam.
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Firefighters underwent training during a chemical plant fire drill at a base in Chongqing, China, on Thursday.
Reuters…

Residents lined up for relief supplies at an evacuation center in New Bataan township in the southern Philippines on Thursday. The death toll from Typhoon Bopha's passage across the southern part of the country rose to 420.
Bullit Marquez/Associated Press…

Workers made sweets at a traditional sweets factory in Jalabadad, Afghanistan, on Thursday.
Parwiz/Reuters…

German Bundeswehr army soldiers walked in front of an armored personnel carrier in their combat outpost in northern Afghanistan on Thursday.
Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters…

A worker welded steel bars at the construction site of a new train station in Ningbo, China's Zhejiang province, Thursday.
China Daily/Reuters…

An Indian Naga tribesman talked on his mobile phone during the Hornbill Festival at Kisama, India's Nagaland state, Thursday.
Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images…

Some 200,000 electric bulbs were lit up Thursday in Kobe, Japan, for the annual illumination event that began in 1995 to commemorate the victims of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake.
Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images…

A man took a nap on an iron beam attached to a pier in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday.
Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press…